There’s a series of documentaries on Netflix called Too Young to Die. One of the episodes is about Falco, the artist who recorded Rock Me Amadeus. At one point, they interview some Austrian dude who was a good friend of Falco’s. He says that if you ask anyone who really knows, Falco was right up there with Grand Master Flash as one of the fathers of hip hop.

I heard that, and I thought, “No, Austrian dude who probably tells everyone that he was good friends with Falco, if YOU ask anyone they’ll tell you that. If I, or anybody who wasn’t a personal friend of Falco, goes around asking if Falco was one of the fathers of hip hop, I suspect we’ll get a very different answer.”